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BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — OCTOBER 1985

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New Books List: 413 titles

  • Bimwili and the Zimwi

    Verna Aardema

  • Sunlight and Silver

    Kelly Adams

    When a nearly naked stranger steps into her cabin, riverboat pilot Jacy Jones assumes he's a "birthday present" ... and boldly asks to unwrap him! Though Jacy's convinced she doesn't need a man, Noah Logan's audacious kiss arouses her trembling aware...

  • Tales of the Horseclans

    Robert Adams

  • Cam Jansen and the Mystery at the Monkey House

    David A. Adler

    Someone's been monkeying around at the monkey house.... A few monkeys are missing from the zoo, and Cam is sure she knows how the thief took them from their cages. With the help of her amazing photographic memory and her best friend, Eric, can Cam...

  • Private Desires // Leonie

    Elizabeth Adler

    Leonie is born into a world of poverty and hardship, she came from the provinces to find her future in Paris. With only her exotic beauty, seductive innocence, and fiery spirit, Leonie vows to rise above her poverty and make a name for herself. As sh...

  • Operation: Star Raider

    Eric Affabee

  • Happy Worm

    Allan Ahlberg

  • Big Bad Pig

    Allan Ahlberg

  • Fee Fi Fo Fum

    Allan Ahlberg

  • Help!

    Allan Ahlberg

  • Vermilion

    Nathan Aldyne

    Two misfit sleuths search for a street hustler’s killer in this mystery series debut first published in 1980 and set in Boston’s gay scene. Daniel Valentine is a gay bartender and former social worker. Clarisse Lovelace is his straight pal who wo...

  • Safe Houses

    Lynne Alexander

    Gerda, the former mistress of both Adolf Eichmann and Raoul Wallenberg, a Hungarian Jew whose once great beauty is fading in a Brooklyn apartment, Rella, her ugly and gullible daughter, and Jack, an upstairs neighbor, share an extraordinary past...

  • Rebel

    Elizabeth Evelyn Allen

    She lived and loved with passion -- but only on her terms! "AIN'T SHE SOMETHING!" the soldiers cried as they watched her ride the huge stallion into the raging river...to save a drowning man. She was Marsh Creighton, a ravishing teen...

  • Grassy Knoll

    Poul Anderson

    The benevolent, paternalistic World State regarded the freedom-minded Jeffersonians as a minor embarrassment whose violent elimination would cause more disruption than their demise would merit. So both sides were happy when the chance came for volunt...

  • Heaven

    V.C. Andrews

    OF ALL THE FOLKS IN THE MOUNTAIN SHACKS, THE CASTEELS WERE THE LOWEST--THE SCUM OF THE HILLS Heaven Leigh Casteel was the prettiest, smartest girl in the backwoods, despite her ragged clothes and dirty face.. . despite a father meaner than ten vi...

  • Teddy Bear Tales

    Joan Walsh Anglund

  • Race Against Time

    Piers Anthony

    John Smith is a typical teenager living in a world he believes to be America in the 1960s, but the strange behavior he sees forces him outside forbidden boundaries to discover the shocking truth. Reissue....

  • Time After Time

    Allen Appel

    A JOURNEY OF TERROR THROUGH TIME...Is Anastasia dead? History professor Alex Balfour confidently knew that the daughter of Tsar Nicholas and her family had been executed on July 16, 1918. Of course, he hadn't witnessed it with his own eyes... yet.But...

  • The Three Billy Goats Gruff

    Ellen Appleby

  • Finding Out

    Lindsay Armstrong

    Would they ever have a happy anniversary? David Marchmont had forced the beautiful Lineesa Creighton, Australia's top model, to marry him a year ago--as restitution for the death of his younger brother. Lineesa had suffered her own guilt ov...

  • Love Among the Allies

    Margot Arnold

  • Promise Forever

    Dee Austin

  • Bright Shadow

    Avi

    In one day, Morwenna has gone from being the lowliest servant in the king's castle to the most powerful person in the land, for she has become the wizard, the bearer of the last five wishes in the kingdom. But with her new gift come rules: She cannot...

  • He Will Not Walk With Me

    Alice Bach

  • Skull Gate

    Robin Wayne Bailey

    The fierce swordfighter Frost has lost her supernatural powers and must travel to the pit of hell and back in order to save herself and the kingdom. Doing battle with all the forces of Hades: demons, sorcerers, vicious spiders, and the most vile o...

  • Mallory's Gambit

    L. Christian Balling

    In a familiar but extremely well fleshed- out and grippingly authentic narrative, Balling ( The Fourth Shot , 1982) takes a credibly flawed and down-to-earth American protagonist from the extem porized assassination attempts of a French Underground c...

  • A Perfect Vision

    Monica Barrie

    Architect Lea Graham tumbled down the hillside of her personal paradise, a stretch of land in New Mexico that she planned to develop into a model community. Waiting at the bottom of the hill was Darren Laird, a fiery artist who would fight anyone ...

  • A Woman Like That

    Constance Bartel

  • When Dreamers Cease to Dream

    Barbara Bartholomew

    A message sent by their android tutor QL47 from the future leads Jeanette Lacy, her brother Neil and their friend Jesse Lansden to travel in time again, for it says: 'WITHOUT YOU THE ALIENS WILL ALL DIE'. Knowing their friend Amy is amongst the alien...

  • On the Loose

    Rose Bayner

    AN AMERICAN IN PARIS! That’s what Walter soon would be! A would-be sophisticate who couldn’t even speak French. A ladies’ man who hadn’t met his lady. A world traveler who had yet to see the world. And now he had his chance! For three w...

  • The Coach That Never Came

    Patricia Beatty

    A stagecoach that vanished without a trace...$40,000 in stolen payroll money...a jewel-studded belt buckle -- they are all pieces of a 110-year-old mystery, that Paul Braun is determined to solve.

    While the thirteen year-old Easterner is vis...

  • Odds Against Tomorrow

    Patti Beckman

    What happens when a world-famous French ladies' man marries a young woman determined to become queen of the Sport of Kings? Nikki Cameron found out when she became Mrs. Jacques Trenchard at the tender age of twenty -- it meant someone had to g...

  • The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull

    John Bellairs

    Professor Childermass has disappeared. And Johnny Dixon can find few clues: a haunted dollhouse and a lighted. menacing iack-e-lantern. The dollhouse is a miniature replica of a room in the Childermass family home -- the same room where the professor...

  • False Impressions

    Ariel Berk

    FIRST IMPRESSIONS CAN BE FALSE... Audrey adjusted her startlingly skimpy uniform and prepared for her first night waitressing at the Angel Club. What was a mild-mannered anthropology teacher doing in this ridiculous getup? Good question. Her publi...

  • A Question of Happiness

    Janine Boissard

  • Midsummer Midnight

    Parris Afton Bonds

    IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM Damon Demetrios temporarily "kidnapped" Sigourney Hamilton, a journalist whose by-line drew as much interest as her subjects. He wanted her to cover the Macedonian struggle for freedom, but she was afraid to become involved,...

  • Chloe and Maude

    Sandra Boynton

    First published in 1985, this classic Sandra Boynton storybook of three stories about two best friends has been redrawn and redesigned for a new generation of young readers!Chloë and Maude is a truly terrific children’s classic, celebratin...

  • Double Exposure

    Joy Gould Boyum

  • Love Beyond Question

    Alicia Brandon

    Love was so easy when they first met The Tulsa nursery often hired prisoners on the work-release program, so nursery manager France Marriott was unfettered by fear or suspicion. She didn't know what Stephen Foley had done -- she only knew that...

  • Tickled to Death

    Simon Brett

  • The Party

    Raymond Briggs

  • The Sleepwalkers

    Hermann Broch

    With his epic trilogy, The Sleepwalkers, Hermann Broch established himself as one of the great innovators of modern literature, a visionary writer-philosopher the equal of James Joyce, Thomas Mann, or Robert Musil. Even as he grounded his narratives ...

  • Partners for Life

    Sharon Brondos

    SHE'D NEVER MET SUCH A ZANY MAN When Nick Hawthorne burst into the ladies' room and asked her to dance, Laura Jensen knew her life was about to take a dramatic turn. Nick was a golf pro with a vision of health for the world -- personali...

  • Darkhold

    Jerry Brown

  • Notes from the Nervous Breakdown Lane

    Ken Brown

    A collection of the best cartoons by the well-known postcard artist is subtly nightmarish, sneaking the surreal into everyday circumstances, with a nostalgic style from the Forties and Fifties, and a twist of Eighties distortion...

  • Goodnight Moon Room

    Margaret Wise Brown

  • Another Dawn

    Sandra Brown

    Jake Langston wasn't a man to go looking for trouble, though if it found him he'd settle it -- with a gun or a soft threat. But the night beautiful Banner Coleman forced his hand, he was lost... Torn by secrets he'd never shared, Jake ...

  • Through Eyes of Love

    Pamela Browning

    For Cassie Muldoon, life itself was an act of courage John Howard's search for Cassie led him to Flat Top Mountain in North Carolina--to a small cabin inhabited by a woman as shy and lovely as a doe. People traveled miles for Cassie's soothing tea...

  • Mountain Massacre

    Jack Buchanan

  • The Convict and Other Stories

    James Lee Burke

    THE COLLECTION NO CRIME FICTION FAN SHOULD BE WITHOUT -- THE ESSENTIAL SHORT STORIES OF JAMES LEE BURKE "America's best novelist" (The Denver Post ), two-time Edgar Award winner James Lee Burke is renowned for his lush, suspense-charged portrayals o...

  • The Golly Sisters Go West

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    A funny introduction to pioneer life, perfect for classrooms and homeschoolers

    The Golly Sisters are heading west. They’ve got new dresses and the best show on either side of the Mississippi. But can they keep their act together long enoug...

  • Enchanted Isle

    James M. Cain

    While searching for her real father, a runaway stumbles into a deadly mess in this gritty noir novel by the author of The Postman Always Rings Twice.With just seventy-four bucks in her pocket, Mandy packs her things and buys the bus ticket that will ...

  • Southern Fire

    Jo Calloway

    The chance chance to spend a summer ghostwriting the history of a small Mississippi town for two elderly belles was the answer to Barbara Whitney's prayers. Putting a hectic year of teaching behind her, she anticipated a period of peace and grace...

  • Moontide

    Stella Cameron

    FATE BESTOWED THEM WITH A SECOND CHANCE Two years ago, Greer Beckett had lost everything. Her husband, her child, even her dreams. Getting on with her life was easier said than done, but now she was willing to try. It was time to go back to Eng...

  • I Been There Before

    David Carkeet

    As the years of Mark Twain's birth and death coincided with the two successive appearances of Halley's Comet, this book records Twain's fictive reincarnation, provoked by the comet's approach toward Earth in November, 1985...

  • Bunnies and Their Hobbies

    Nancy Carlson

  • Journey Toward Tomorrow

    Karyn Carr

    Finding him again could mean the greatest joy of her life, or a bigger heartbreak than she could imagine. For seven long years memories of Bert had kept Marcy Delaney wondering, hoping, but never really expecting to find him again. Yet, while vaca...

  • Execution Exchange

    Nick Carter

  • Making Waves

    A.C. Chandler

  • Dogwood Afternoons

    Kim Chapin

    Dogwood Afternoons is the story of Andrew Mavis, a young race-car driver. Mavis is testing his car on a new superspeedway, running practice laps against his boyhood friend and rival, Wynn Tatum, as they vie with each other for a job with a factory r...

  • Shaggy Dog's Christmas

    Don Charles

  • Autumn Reckoning

    Maggi Charles

    Although Jennifer Bentley was one of the world's richest heiresses, she had carved her own career as a creator of children's books, pouring all her emotions into the pages. Now she was returning to the beautiful Berkshires, where a stormy marriage ha...

  • The Bronze King

    Suzy McKee Charnas

  • The Bishop and Other Stories

    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

    In the waning weeks of his life, a renowned bishop reflects on his past and his priorities. Written during the period when Anton Chekhov was gravely ill with tuberculosis, "The Bishop" reflects the author's feelings about his own imminent death, and ...

  • Cuckoo's Egg

    C.J. Cherryh

    They named him Thorn. They told him he was of their people, although he was so different. He was ugly in their eyes, strange, sleek-skinned instead of furred, clawless, different. Yet he was of their power class: judge-warriors, the elite, the fig...

  • Frederica in Fashion

    Marion Chesney

    "SINCE THERE IS NO HOPE OF MY SECURING AN ELIGIBLE PARTI, DUE TO A SAD LACK OF LOOKS, I AM RUNNING AWAY...." So wrote the sixth of the famous Armitage sisters. For how could colorless Frederica Armitage withstand a Season's scrutiny af...

  • Doodle Soup

    John Ciardi

  • Stop That Witch!

    Mary Clark
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  • Hazel Rye

    Vera Cleaver

    An eleven-year-old girl, with no appreciation for land and growing things, finds her values beginning to change when she agrees to let an impoverished family live in a small house she owns, in exchange for working in the surrounding orange grove....

  • Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!

    Miriam Cohen

    When the class finds out that the new boy, Alex, exaggerates and even lies, no one wants anything to do with him. But when Alex helps Jim, he decides to befriend him, and soon Alex learns that to be accepted, you just need to be yourself....

  • Marital Affairs

    Morris L. Cohen

    Intelligent, talented, and attractive Lisa and Jason Green, a Southern California couple, totally committed to each other, find their relationship undermined when Lisa must stifle her own needs and promising career to support Jason's insatiable ambit...

  • The Later Adventures of Tom Jones

    Bob Coleman

    In 1774, Henry Fielding's irrepressible hero is roused from his finally staid and settled life and lights out for the turbulent American colonies, dogged by diverse ladies, husbands, children, lawyers, and villains...

  • Diary of a Frantic Kid Sister

    Hila Coleman

  • Night Train to Paris

    Manning Coles

  • Calke Abbey Derbyshire a Hidden House Revealed

    Howard Colvin

  • Savage Storm

    Phoebe Conn

    SHE DREAMED OF A HUSBAND Luscious Gabrielle had lost everything she had in Kansas City. Now all she wanted was to survive the Oregon Trail and start a new life as a mail order bride. Then she met ruggedly handsome Jason Royal, and the auburn-hair...

  • Spring Fever

    Abby Connell

    In a romantic tale focusing on a young girl at two separate periods of her life--at fourteen and at seventeen--Sarah must come to terms with her parents decision to turn their farm into a country store and with her feelings for childhood friend Seth ...

  • Midair

    Frank Conroy

  • Warlock

    Glen Cook

    The world grows colder with each passing year, the longer winters and ever-deepening snows awaking ancient fears within the Dengan Packstead, fears of invasion by armed and desperate nomads, attack by the witchlike and mysterious Silth, able to kill ...

  • The River Between

    Jacquelyn Cook

    The River had Brought Him to Her -- Would the River also Keep Them Apart? From the belvedere of her Alabama mansion on the banks of the Chattahoochee River, Lily watched for steamboats and dreamed of the man who would one day be united with her ...

  • Duende Meadow

    Paul Cook

    For six hundred years after the final war, a handful of survivors live below the fields of Kansas--transformed into ghostlike beings, duendes--to wait for the healing of Earth, but, when they finally emerge, they discover age-old enemies in control...

  • Bonnie's Blues

    Jeffrey Cooper

    High-school junior Bonnie Simmons, reporter for the school newspaper, interviews rock star Jerry Casablanca, lead singer for the Ragged Edge, and soon finds herself romantically involved with Jerry, editor Peter Stepman, and Tim, her best friend's co...

  • Moving Too Fast

    M.E. Cooper

    Can opposites attract . . . for keeps? It's love at first sight when an accidental meeting throws Sasha and Wesley together. But on their first date, this couple realizes they have little in common besides their love for each other: she's a romant...

  • Crazy Love

    M.E. Cooper

    Out of control... When Kim and Woody fall for each other, it's like a romantic scene from one of Woody's Kennedy High stage productions. Kim's smart, independent, and pretty; Woody's funny, talented, and handsome. They're destined for a happy endi...

  • When Darkness Falls

    Barbara Corcoran

    A junior counselor at a summer camp in the Montana mountains, seventeen-year-old Julie Horton is puzzled by the behavior of fellow counselor Mark after the strange disappearance of one of her young campers....

  • Love's Gentle Journey

    Kay Cornelius

    Theirs was a perilous journey ... across a vast ocean to uncharted wilderness ... but the hard-won prize would be A New World ... A New World for Ann McKay - Poised on the brink of uncertain womanhood, loath to leave behind the familiar haunts of hom...

  • Maui-Maui

    Stephen Cosgrove

  • Escape Me Never

    Sara Craven

    There was simply no escaping love... Cassie Linton turned unobtrusiveness into an art. She wasn't a frustrated widow -- ripe for the taking -- and she went out of her way to avoid appealing to the opposite sex. But the day she was forced to...

  • Bicycle Race

    Donald Crews

    A counting book
    for the youngest --
    filled with motion,
    excitement, and
    suspense. Twelve
    riders compete
    in a bicycle race.
    Who will win?
    (A word to the wise:
    Keep your eye
    on Number 9!)
    ...

  • Funny Farm

    Jay Cronley

    Andy and Elizabeth Farmer exchange New York for a rural paradise but find that the pond next to their new house has snakes, the house is infested with mosquitoes, and the former owner is buried in the yard...

  • The Iron Web

    Ken Crowder

  • Fanglith

    John Dalmas

    Two political refugees are pursued by the Thought-Police and the violent warriors of eleventh-century Earth after they are trapped on a barbaric planet with only a small computer and a telepathic wolf to help them...

  • The Yngling

    John Dalmas

  • God Bless Us Every One!

    Andrew Angus Dalrymple

    This sequel to "A Christmas Carol" is set in the Cratchit household seven years later when Bob Cratchit is a smug senior partner in the law firm of Cratchit and Scrooge, and Tiny Tim a rebellious teenager...

  • Bestiary

    Jack Dann

  • Point of Impact

    Emma Darcy

    It was time to end her years of loneliness Somewhere deep inside Helen knew that even after four years her love for Joe would always be there -- a faint unsatisfied longing. Yet she hoped never to see him again. To think that their meeting wou...

  • An Unexpected Gift

    Andrea Davidson

    A thoughtless boast teased them with love -- and sudden death Despite his charm, Greg Fisher was a fool. To have wagered his career, his reputation and most probably his life against the possibility of finding a legendary mine! Oh, Anne knew he th...

  • Under Plum Lake

    Lionel Davidson

    A young boy swimming off the cliffs of Cornwall discovers a cave, the entrance to a wonderful new world of giant, long-living people, fish that swim in the air, flower-flavored water, and varying time patterns...

  • Fortune's Darling

    Frances Davies

    Dazzling Andrew Wiswood--alias "Louisa May Lustleigh," illustrious romance author--coolly uses women as stimuli for his torrid writing. Literary agent Joanna Simmons abhors a man for whom females are merely emotional fodder. But to secure his shamele...

  • Garfield Rolls On

    Jim Davis

    You just can't keep a good cat down. And with Garfield you'd need muscles to do it, anyway. This is the frisky feline's tenth collection and it's full of the antics and acrobatics you know and love him for. As a bonus it also features an inteview wit...

  • Charleyhorse

    Cecil Dawkins

  • Wild Flame

    Gina Delaney

    NEW LOVE She had been born and reared a gentle English lass. Yet once seventeen-year-old Milly set foot on the vast Australian farm, she had the Outback in her blood. Young and innocent, she dreamed of love's sweet awakening. But she couldn't tame...

  • Hand in Hand

    Edith Delatush

    Beautiful librarian Erica Doddsworth was something of a local celebrity: a crack handwriting expert, she could tell exactly what a man was after just by looking at his signature. But when Mike Evans, the dashing new police chief, asked her to help hi...

  • Chances Are

    Barbara Delinsky

    He was a master at the game Public-relations expert Liz Jerome treated all her clients with professional detachment. But her new client, sexy Donovan Grant, just wasn't having any. Instead he caught her off guard with his subtle come-ons and his h...

  • Outrage

    Henry Denker

  • The Time of Her Life

    Robb Forman Dew

    Now restored to print -- the acclaimed second novel by the National Book Award-winning author of Dale Loves Sophie to Death and The Evidence Against Her. Claudia and Avery Parks, lovers since high school, are now in their thirties. Intelligent, charm...

  • Alamein to Zem Zem

    Keith Douglas

  • The Great Thirst

    William Duggan

  • Softly Flits a Shadow

    Elizabeth Duke

    The honeymoon cruise was already booked It was to have been a dream trip -- Hawaii, the Pacific Islands and on to Australia. But Robyn had been jilted by her fiance. Her heart and her pride had taken a battering, so Robyn was glad for the flirt...

  • I Love My Baby Sister... Most of the Time

    Elaine Edelman

  • The Scoundrel's Daughter

    Rachelle Edwards

    "I AM TO HAVE A SEASON AFTER ALL. I CAN SCARCELY CONTAIN MY DELIGHT!" Jacey Trevallion's joy at being summoned to London by her profligate father is to be short-lived indeed. For once there, he confesses to her that he has promised her portion--an...

  • Murder in the Queen's Armes

    Aaron Elkins

    SKULLDUGGERY... Why would anyone steal a thirty-thousand-year-old skull? England's famous Poundbury Man has been swiped right from its museum case, and anthropologist Gideon Oliver, honeymooning in Britain with his new bride, Julie, finds the myst...

  • Dangerous Interlude

    Emily Elliott

    As a police investigator and forensic chemist, Amanda Blakeman had seen her share of danger and excitement. But she'd never known anyone quite like Jack Vance, the daring homicide officer who'd put the San Antonio SWAT Team on the map. Jack&#...

  • To Have It All

    Robin Elliott

    ALL OR NOTHING Jenna Winter didn't make a habit of getting locked in department-store windows, but if Brant Adams would always be there to rescue her, it was something that she could easily get used to. The ex-football star of the Los Angel...

  • Lone Star and the Gold Mine War

    Wesley Ellis

    JESSICA STARBUCK: WANTED FOR LARCENY Passing herself off as Jessica Starbuck, a scheming cartel woman buys up dozens of mining claims in California's Mother Lode -- paying for them with counterfeit bank drafts and leaving the real Jessie holding the...

  • One More River

    Suzanne Ellison

    It wasn't that Amy didn't believe in God ... It was just that she was afraid that He no longer believed in her .. . Faith, like childhood, was something she seemed to have outgrown, and returning to Camp Colina, the scene of her most meaningful ex...

  • Four-D Funhouse

    Clayton Emery

  • A Chance Worth Taking

    Lynn Erickson

    She was the toughest challenge of all order. Serenity. her own oil company. Until Rick Hagen came to town. Kate Cummings, owner of her own Colorado based oil company, had it all, until she met Rick Hagan, hot corporate Robin Hood. He asked her help i...

  • Roses Are Dead

    Loren D. Estleman

    Hit man Peter Macklin battles divorce attorneys, mobsters, and hired assassins in this action-packed, hard-boiled thriller   For years, Donna ignored the guns in her husband’s safe, his long hours, and all the cash he couldn’t possibly have ...

  • Longarm in the Bitterroots

    Tabor Evans

    THE MONTANA ORDEAL No one could be that lucky in gambling. Yet Weeping Snakes won every time, claiming guidance from the spirits. When the impoverished ranchers and miners in Bitterroots, Montana, try to stop his winning streak, Weeping Snakes goe...

  • World Treasury of Children's Literature

    Clifton Fadiman

  • The Armchair Detective

    Straus & Giroux Farrar

  • The Dangerous Dr. Langhorne

    Ellen Fitzgerald

    THE LORD OF SCANDAL From the moment beautiful Lady Vanessa Ventriss saw Sir Philip Langhorne at a ball, she was entranced by this tall, elegant, handsome man. Then she began to hear the rumors about him. First she heard that he had been a common ...

  • The Atlas of the Land

    Karen Wynn Fonstad

  • The Answering Tide

    Regan Forest

    She needed answers -- and she needed him. Adrienne Canaday had never thought of herself as a woman of mystery...until she discovered her birth certificate was a forgery. Unexpected, too, was the immediate fascination she had with dolphins...and with...

  • Starquake

    Robert L. Forward

    Starquake, the sequel to Dragon's Egg, takes place on the surface of a neutron star. The gravity is 67 billion Earth gravities. The native cheela, the size of sesame seeds, live a million times faster than their human friends in orbit. After a starqu...

  • A Maggot

    John Fowles

    In the spring of 1736 four men and one woman, all traveling under assumed names, are crossing the Devonshire countryside en route to a mysterious rendezvous. Before their journey ends, one of them will be hanged, one will vanish, and the others will ...

  • Chance Hero

    Ann Gabhart

    A chance encounter. What was it about the Chance Woods? The local gossips said that just to walk in them was dangerous. Not many ventured into their depths. There were too many stories about people who wandered in and never came out. That would n...

  • Bioblast

    Raymond Z. Gallun

    The enigmatic Lance Tolliver, a unique blend of human being and genetic chameleon with extraordinary abilities, may be either the next step in human evolution or the evil sire of a race of supermonsters capable of destroying humankind...

  • Two Islands

    Ivan Gantschev

  • The Wild Rose

    Rene J. Garrod

    SECRET DESIRES California's gold rush had lured Miranda Austen and her father all the way from London. But when her father lost his life in the harsh wilderness, the well-bred English beauty was suddenly alone in the uncivilized American West. Onl...

  • Gentle Warrior

    Julie Garwood

    IN FEUDAL ENGLAND, THE NOBLE ELIZABETH WAS TRAPPED IN HER OWN CASTLE-SUBJECT TO A PASSIONATE LORD! 1086, England. Lady Elizabeth Catherine Montwright barely escaped the bloody massacre that destroyed her family and exiled her from their ancestral ...

  • Silent Crescendo

    Catherine George

    Were they totally wrong for each other? Judith neither knew nor cared much about classical music, and the last man on earth she expected to fall in love with was the great tenor Rafael David. Their affair couldn't last, she told herself. Th...

  • Watch Out, Ronald Morgan!

    Patricia Reilly Giff

  • The Spirit of Enterprise

    George Gilder

  • Some Beasts No More

    Kenneth Giles

  • Irish Folktales

    Henry Glassie

  • Disposable People

    Marshall Goldberg

  • Night Bells Blooming

    Emma Goldrick

    Could she find the courage to love? Evy Hart was low on courage. She was frightened by anything that moved, that seemed authoritative, that seemed too masculine -- like Jason Brown. He was all male. Overpowering! But he was not the enemy. Afte...

  • Keeping in Touch

    Ellen Goodman

  • Virtue and Vice

    Lucy Gordon

    TRADING PLACES Julia and Cindy were identical twins -- but different as night and day. Their family called them Virtue and Vice, and Julia was the good twin. She would I never do anything as foolish as to agree to impersonate her sister -- especia...

  • An Angel's Share // Witness to Death

    Heather Graham

    She had no choice. She was his prisoner. She hadn't committed a crime. She’d seen one. As state's witness in a murder case, Lorna Doria was invaluable--and in danger. It was New York City undercover cop Andrew Trudeau's job to...

  • Shadows Eight

    Charles L. Grant

  • Pink Satin

    Jeanne Grant

    Self-conscious about her voluptuous figure, Greer Lothrop feels safer offering men chicken soup and companionship than arousing their impassioned longings. But when a crank phone caller leaves her quaking, she seeks comfort from captivating Ryan McCu...

  • The Florida Burn

    Stephen Grave

  • The Heart's Yearning

    Ginna Gray

    Glamour, success, money...Laura Phillips had it all. Yet despite her full life, one yearning constantly tugged at her heart -- the desire to see her son. She'd been forced to give Mike away when he was born, but now the emptiness was too vast, th...

  • Peace Company

    Roland J. Green

    If you seek peace -- prepare for war A rule as true in the 24th Century as it is today. When 75 planets from savage tribes to outlaw tyrannies to star-spanning mega-powers -- totter on the brink of the hell that began the day Earth destroyed itsel...

  • Ship Rock

    Ted Greenwood

  • Slammer

    Ben Greer

    Set in a Carolina state penitentiary, Slammer brings to life a dark, complex world of the prison system. Told from the eyes of four of the characters, the reader becomes caught up in the violent tensions that filter throughout the prison. Aaron Wal...

  • Love Is in the Air

    Diana Gregory

    Deena Whitney is flabbergasted when she wins flying lessons, but her boyfriend Brad thinks they're a waste of time. He urges her to learn practical skills like computer programming and accounting. But Deena doesn't listen. Once she's in the cockpi...

  • Nata

    Helen V. Griffith

    K-Gr 2 ``Nata was usually good, but one June day she wasn't.'' She tangled a spider's web, disturbed the bees, tied a knot in the cricket's feelers and was generally unpleasant to all of the garden creatures. Only the toad knows what is the matter wi...

  • The Winning Streak

    Arnold Grisman

    Called "The Golden Arm" to celebrate his six touchdown passes thrown against Harvard, Goldberg is now a lucky gambler in Las Vegas who meets a complicated and beautiful woman named Barbara and a complicated and dangerous man named Doc...

  • Token of Love

    Joan Grove

    If anything could go wrong, it clearly would. Christina Burke had come to the convention as stand-in for her ailing boss. Scheduled to meet with the company's efficiency expert, she was determined to dislike him on sight. But the West Virginia re...

  • The Crimson Sea

    Gary Gygax

  • Saga of Old City

    Gary Gygax

    GREYHAWK... a beautiful, wondrous city. a cruel city. a harsh, pitiless city for a young orphan boy with no money and no friends -- but plenty of enemies! Enter the Old City of Greyhawk, that marvelous place where dreams -- and nightmares ...

  • Island of Desire

    Antoinette Hale

    Block Island. She thought of it as her island. Elizabeth Dale-Jones - gallery proprietor, amateur photographer, all-around dilettante, and local heiress - was certain of two things: No one was going to put up a hotel that blocked her parents' view of...

  • The Coming of the Kid

    Oakley Hall

    A lush who talks to horses, a dwarf with a traveling pharmacy, a world-weary grizzly named Duke, and hordes of uncanny riders make up the supporting cast of this satiric fable about the advent of the Kid, summoned to battle Evil in the Old West...

  • A Matter of Magic

    Linda Hampton

    When the handsome man she'd crashed into headlong produced a rose from thin air, talent agent Georgette Finlay was sure she'd found the magician she'd been seeking! Unprepared to lose his amateur status or his executive job, Murray Richards did his b...

  • Airships

    Barry Hannah

    Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award, Airships is a “strong, original, tragic and funny” story collection of “the creative Southern tradition” (Alfred Kazin).   One of the most revered short story collections of the past fifty years, Airships...

  • A Stainless Steel Rat is Born

    Harry Harrison

    In the auspicious annals of crime, chicanery and counter-espionage, one name towers above all the rest--"Slippery Jim" diGriz, the fabled outlaw known and feared as The Stainless Steel Rat! Now, the uncanny, untold origins of the 25th century's most ...

  • A Position of Trust

    Roy Hart

  • Happy Birthday, Little Witch

    Deborah Hautzig

  • Timber Blood

    Steven F. Havill

  • A Change of Fortune

    Sandra Heath

    TEMPTING TARGET Miss Leonie Conyngham was as wealthy as she was beautiful and proud--until family disaster stripped her of fortune and left her with only her pride to defend her beauty. Rupert, the Duke of Thornbury, the most notorious and suc...

  • The Visitor

    Helme Heine

  • Safe Harbour

    Rosalie Henaghan

    Anna annoyed him -- before they'd even met! She had heard about Mark Findlay -- from his sister, who had hired Anna in Mark's absence. Anna had no way of knowing he had returned. Nor that the man she'd so disastrously kept encounter...

  • Custer's Last Stand

    Will Henry

    The real story of the Little Big Horn begins a thousand bitter miles southward in a drift of burning tipi ashes on the banks of the Washita. There, in November 1868, Custer and his Seventh Cavalry murdered the sleeping village of the peace chief Blac...

  • Friend

    Diana Henstell

    Paul "Piggy" Conway, a thirteen-year-old scientific genius, brings back to life his beloved Samantha, who lives next door, after the young girl is murdered by her alcoholic father, and the grotesque "rebirth" has unexpected and horrific repercussions...

  • Man from Internal Affairs

    Nat Hentoff

    Jazz-loving New York police detective Noah Green, trying to find a killer on New York's Lower East side, finds himself trying, at the same time, to ward off the depredations of the Internal Affairs Division...

  • The Ghost Squad and the Halloween Conspiracy

    E.W. Hildick

  • Ready... Set... Robot

    Lillian Hoban

  • The Laziest Robot in Zone One

    Lillian Hoban

  • Let a Soldier Die

    Gary Holland

    After mistakenly killing a group of American soldiers who had wandered into his target area, Vietnam helicopter pilot Warrant Officer Troll begins--with fatal results--to hesitate in carrying out his mission and struggles to redefine his sense of him...

  • Footsteps

    Richard Holmes

    Richard Holmes’s great work of biographical exploration, published alongside its sister volume ‘Sidetracks’.In 1985, Richard Holmes published a small book of essays called ‘Footsteps’ and the writing of biography was changed forever. A dari...

  • Caribbee

    Thomas Hoover

    In the epic and powerful tradition of James Clavell and James Michener, Thomas Hoover, author of the international bestseller, The Moghul, presents a magnificent novel of bold adventure, political intrigue, and passionate romance. Caribbee, dazzlingl...

  • Fifties Style

    Richard Horn

    Two hundred color and black-and-white photographs provide a visual catalog of the full range of design and decoration during the 1950s, ranging from jetlines to album jackets, from automobiles to advertising images, from buildings to bangles...

  • River of Dreams

    Naomi Horton

    RENEGADE LOVE Beyond the sleek yacht stretched the mighty Amazon -- and the Brazilian jungle that hid Leigh Barnett's missing father. She'd come from Denver to find the only man daring enough to make the journey. Reluctantly Race Sloane ag...

  • Borderline

    Janette Turner Hospital

    By chance, Felicity, a Boston art gallery director, and Gus, a Canadian insurance salesman, witness the arrest of Salvadorean refugees trying to enter Canada, and decide to help an alien missed by the custom inspectors...

  • Taking Care

    Fanny Howe

  • Glittering Promises

    Anna Hudson

    Christine McMahon was determined that her annual get-rich-quick scheme was going to pay off this time. With the help of her beautiful sexy twin sister and her agent brother, how could a book called Hunter's Guide to Stalking a Man miss? But when Chri...

  • Or the Bambino Dies

    Peter Inchbald

  • Appleby's Answer

    Michael Innes

    One of the Appleby crime novels. In a West Country village Priscilla Pringle, writer of clerical detective stories, becomes involved in one of her own ingeniously constructed plots. Luckily Sir John Appleby, retired Metropolitan Police Commissione...

  • Hush Money

    Peter Israel

    Hired to kill a sensational story, a modern-day shamus discovers a murder The rumors start flying almost as soon as Karen Beydon leaps out her window. The newspapers provide myriad theories as to what led this beautiful heiress to hurl herself out of...

  • The Secret Bluestocking

    Eileen Jackson

    HER SHAMEFUL SECRET On the surface, Miss Emma Waring seemed a most proper young lady. True, her hair was a rather unfashionable reddish-gold, and at times a spark of deviltry marred her studiously innocent gaze. But all in all, Emma obeyed the pro...

  • Space Assassin

    Steve Jackson

  • Nina's Song

    Anna James

    TWO'S COMPANY Ten years ago Nina thought that she and Alex had a future together, as a couple and as a musical team -- Alex wrote the words; she made the music. But now she realized that all she had was their past. Except that Alex had just...

  • Love Fire

    Deana James

    FORBIDDEN DESIRE Lovely Princess Joanna couldn't stop the tumultuous emotions that surged through her heart when she first saw the knight Geoffrey Fitzjean. His sculpted face and virile frame made her ache to her very core. His golden hair and slate...

  • Golden Goddess

    Stephanie James

    SMUGGLED TREASURE Hannah Prescott had indulged in an innocent fantasy about Jarrett Blade, the handsome stranger books on the same plane with her on her vacation to Hawaii. But when this same man forced his way into her life by breaking into her h...

  • The Man in Room 12

    Claudia Jameson

    She'd coped admirably until he came along! Usually Dawn Davies took things in stride. But what with the blizzard and the flu epidemic at her mother's Welsh country inn, the man in room twelve was too much! She hadn't the time to pan...

  • Roses, Always Roses

    Claudia Jameson

    How could they have any future together? "Do you think my life's ambition is to bring ruin and unhappiness to anyone whose name is Kent?" Daniel Conrad was frustrated by Donna Kent's refusal to acknowledge the attraction between th...

  • The Cone-Gatherers

    Robin Jenkins

    The acclaimed novel of brothers working on a Scottish estate during WWII “has a strange haunting poetic quality…a fable of eternal significance” (Iain Crichton Smith). As World War II rages through Europe, brothers Calum and Neil work to gather...

  • The Mars One Crew Manual

    Kerry Mark Joels

  • Wanted: a Fairy Godmother

    Crockett Johnson

    Cushlamochree! When Barnaby Baxter was five years old, he prayed and prayed for a fairy godmother, but none was available. So the powers that be sent him J.J. O'Malley, an unemployed Fairy Godfather with his inevitable fine Havana magic wand, of cour...

  • The Lion and the Leopard

    Mary Ellen Johnson

    Love, Duty and Loyalty Collide in a Dramatic Fashion to Determine King Edward II's Future in the Medieval Historical Romance, The Lion and the Leopard, by Mary Ellen Johnson--Medieval England in the reign of Edward II, from 1307-1327--Maria Rendell w...

  • Summer Stars

    Alexis Hill Jordan

    Two weeks in the Virginia wilderness. It was no picnic. It was a unique company testing ground. The prize, for engineer Nikki Scott -- if she proved equal to the rugged challenges -- was the job she wanted: manager of a major bridge-building project....

  • The Hard Man // Tempted by the Seductive Stranger

    Penny Jordan

    Jay was a threat to her way of life! Vicky had worked for ten years to support her ten-year-old twins and a stepson, to hold onto the old home--her own needs unfulfilled in the struggle. When she thought of the past it was with regret and a fee...

  • World Enough & Time

    James Md Kahn

  • British Short Stories

    Frederick R. Karl

  • Ice

    Anna Kavan

    This literary science fiction classic details the hallucinatory hunt for a white-haired girl, through a frozen, post-apocalyptic landscape“A haunting story of sexual assault and climate catastrophe, decades ahead of its time” " The New Yorker...